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You might be interested in some of the posts on this tag: https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/topics/safeguarding-liberal-democracy
There’s also an EA org called Centre for Election Science looking at different voting systems.
My view is that fighting online disinformation and media bias in LMICs is a tractable approach, but I’d be interested in exploring efforts to strengthen electoral commissions and new ideas on incorporating public opinion, evidence and theory into policy making.
The Centre for Election Science are doing some super interesting stuff. Would be interesting to try and do something similar in the UK.
I think the information and democracy track (fake news/fairer and more effective campaigns/democratic literacy) and the electoral reform track have a lot to gain from each other. We can’t get the democracy we want (if you go for the defending liberal democracy as a cause argument) without both sides succeeding.
Had a bit of a faff working out how to get the formatting right on mobile—Will come back and try and restructure this later!
The vibe I was going for with this is that more people voting and/or engaging more effectively with democracy can be regarded as a good worth perusing in itself, but that doesn’t mean it will necessarily benefit other EA causes. People we encourage/enable to engage more effectively with democracy might vote against EA candidates/causes.